hundred

• Hundred, HUNDRED

Borrowed from English hundred.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhandrɛd/^[1]

hundred

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for 00.

Used only for whole hundreds (a final 00 in a number), and then only for distances (including altitudes). Thus 10,900 m is one zero thousand nine hundred meter, but 10,946 m is one zero thousand nine four six meter and 200° is two zero zero degree.

• Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: C
• ISO prefix: hecto-
• Exponential notation: 10²

From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).^[1] Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.

• enPR: hŭnʹdrəd, hŭnʹdrĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈhʌndɹəd/, /ˈhʌndɹɪd/
• (mostly nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌndɚd/, /ˈhʌnd͡ʒɚd/

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• Hyphenation: hun‧dred

hundred (plural hundreds)

1. A numerical value equal to 100 (10²), occurring after ninety-nine.

   hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces

   a hundred, one hundred

   nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred

2. (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
   • 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:

     “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”

Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or other modifier to function as a numeral.

• a hundred women / one hundred women / the hundred women
• compare a dozen women / one dozen women / the dozen women
• compare ten women / the ten women

Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.

• two hundred women / some hundred women
• hundreds of women

In telling military time, "hundred" is typically only used for exact hours, e.g. 09:00 is "oh nine hundred" and 21:00 is "twenty-one hundred", while 03:30 is "oh three thirty". Sometimes, nonstandardly (e.g. in fiction by authors not entirely familiar with military time-telling), 03:30 may be read as "oh three hundred thirty".

• (numerical): cent (obsolete, except in per cent), one hundred

• → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri

hundred (plural hundreds)

1. A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
2. (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
3. (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
4. (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.

   He made a hundred in the historic match.

• (collection of 100 things): centuplet; centenary (obsolete)
• (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
• (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
• (cricket: hundred runs): century

• (administrative division): See county and tithing

• (administrative division): See carucate (¹⁄₁₀₀ hundred & for smaller divisions)

• Chafford Hundred
• hundredal
• Hundred End

• wapentake

• hunderd

• hundrede (cardinal number)
• hundrede (noun)

From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (< Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”).

• IPA^(key): /hunrəd/, [ˈhunɐð]

hundred

1. hundred

• → Greenlandic: hundredi

hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)

1. a unit of about one hundred

From Old English hundred, from Proto-West Germanic *hundarad, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on Old Norse hundrað.

• hondred, houndred, houndreth, hundered, hundereth, hunderyth, hundreþ, hundret, hundreth, hundrid, hundrit, hundrythe, hwndreth
• honderd, hundurd

• IPA^(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundərd/

hundred

2. A hundred; 100.
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎^[2], folio 34, recto, lines 34-35; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

     [Þ]au pilatuſ him come wid ten hu[n]dꝛed cniſteſ. / yet ic wolde louerd foꝛ þi loue fiſte.

     "If Pilate himself came with ten hundred knights, / Lord, I would still fight for your sake."

3. A large number; a zillion.

Much like modern English hundred, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.

• hundredfold

• English: hundred
  • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
• Scots: hunder, hunner
• Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hundereth; hunderth, hunnert

• “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

hundred (plural hundredes)

1. A hundredweight.
3. A hundred (administrative division)
4. The assembly or court of such a division.

• hundredpeny

• English: hundred

• “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “hundred, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (“hundred”) +‎ -the (ordinal suffix).

• hondraȝte, hondred, hondredaȝte, hundredeþe, hundret, hundreþ, hundreth, hundrid

• IPA^(key): /ˈhundrɛd/, /ˈhundrɛθ/, /ˈhundər/

hundred

2. A hundredth.

• English: hundredth

• “hundredethe, ord. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Proto-Germanic *hundaradą (“hundred”), from *hundą + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”).^[1]

Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxun.dred/, [ˈhun.dred]

hundred n

1. hundred

• hund
• hundtēontiġ

• Middle English: hundred
  • English: hundred
    • → Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
  • Scots: hunder, hunner
  • Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hundereth; hunderth, hunnert